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(he/him). Pen 'n paper RPG dweeb. Despairing lefty. Trail runner. Neurodivergent, like all the best people.
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I keep coming back the fact that to some people using the defence that Elon just did a motion that happened to look like a Nazi salute, that he reinvented one of the most famous hate symbols from first principles by accident.
Which is obvious nonsense. The man can’t invent anything himself.
Which is obvious nonsense. The man can’t invent anything himself.
January 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I keep coming back the fact that to some people using the defence that Elon just did a motion that happened to look like a Nazi salute, that he reinvented one of the most famous hate symbols from first principles by accident.
Which is obvious nonsense. The man can’t invent anything himself.
Which is obvious nonsense. The man can’t invent anything himself.
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Right, not much to celebrate today but solely because of this site we had our best ever DriveThruRPG sales this weekend, which was v. unexpected
So to say thanks, we'll send 1 person who reposts this every copy of the mag in stock (issues 3-4) & 1 of each of our Johan Nohr & Łukasz Kowalczuk tees
So to say thanks, we'll send 1 person who reposts this every copy of the mag in stock (issues 3-4) & 1 of each of our Johan Nohr & Łukasz Kowalczuk tees
January 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Right, not much to celebrate today but solely because of this site we had our best ever DriveThruRPG sales this weekend, which was v. unexpected
So to say thanks, we'll send 1 person who reposts this every copy of the mag in stock (issues 3-4) & 1 of each of our Johan Nohr & Łukasz Kowalczuk tees
So to say thanks, we'll send 1 person who reposts this every copy of the mag in stock (issues 3-4) & 1 of each of our Johan Nohr & Łukasz Kowalczuk tees
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Nazi oligarchs fuck off.
January 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nazi oligarchs fuck off.
Recommendations straight from the maestro. Reminds me: I really need to try FIST one of these days.
Hasbro is definitely stumbling in the wake of the D&D One release, and people are going to be looking for alternatives. Here's a thread of indie games that have caught my attention.
It’s time for independent tabletop role-playing games to get loud
January 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Recommendations straight from the maestro. Reminds me: I really need to try FIST one of these days.
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Nah, we can quietly ignore the dragon and just let it die. De-center Hasbro in the hobby, don’t challenge it. They’re a big, dying fish, there are far more interesting depths in this pond.
It’s time for independent tabletop role-playing games to get loud
It’s time for independent tabletop role-playing games to get loud
The dragon is wounded, and it’s time to throw yourselves into the breach
buff.ly
January 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Nah, we can quietly ignore the dragon and just let it die. De-center Hasbro in the hobby, don’t challenge it. They’re a big, dying fish, there are far more interesting depths in this pond.
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This is your periodic reminder that:
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
January 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is your periodic reminder that:
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
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i love seeing my chickens just hanging out. The dynamics of their little friend groups.
January 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
i love seeing my chickens just hanging out. The dynamics of their little friend groups.
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Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it.
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards
The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segre...
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January 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it.
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."
January 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."
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If it's an 'authoritarian drive' in China to remove trans people from public view, what's it called in the UK and US?
A recent series of sudden and unexplained cancelations by local authorities of appearances by her dance troupe has sparked fears Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s authoritarian drive is ensnaring the country’s most prominent openly transgender personality
Famed transgender dancer has shows canceled in China. Some fear a wider crackdown | CNN
Transgender dancer Jin Xing’s ascent to the upper echelons of Chinese show business is extraordinary in a nation where it has become increasingly difficult for LGBTQ+ people to live openly.
www.cnn.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If it's an 'authoritarian drive' in China to remove trans people from public view, what's it called in the UK and US?
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Introducing the Designing Dungeons Course: a free, 14 step, hands-on tutorial that walks you through the process of creating a 30-room dungeon from scratch.
I just launched the first two chapters. More chapters forthcoming every week. I hope you'll check it out!
dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games
I just launched the first two chapters. More chapters forthcoming every week. I hope you'll check it out!
dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games
January 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Introducing the Designing Dungeons Course: a free, 14 step, hands-on tutorial that walks you through the process of creating a 30-room dungeon from scratch.
I just launched the first two chapters. More chapters forthcoming every week. I hope you'll check it out!
dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games
I just launched the first two chapters. More chapters forthcoming every week. I hope you'll check it out!
dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games
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Happy new year, everyone! I wrote a manifesto for 2025! In 2025, I'm doing to review as many ZUNGEONS as I can get my hands on. Let's lower the bar on making dungeons, but keep in gorgeous. Here's how to make a zungeon. playfulvoid.game.blog/2025/01/01/t... #osr
The Zungeon Manifesto: Demystifying Dungeon Creation
I have a really large earring collection; I have perhaps as many earrings as I have TTRPGs, and I mainly buy them from local craft markets, not jewellers. They’re all made from resin or clay,…
playfulvoid.game.blog
December 31, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Happy new year, everyone! I wrote a manifesto for 2025! In 2025, I'm doing to review as many ZUNGEONS as I can get my hands on. Let's lower the bar on making dungeons, but keep in gorgeous. Here's how to make a zungeon. playfulvoid.game.blog/2025/01/01/t... #osr
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This is a helpful read, re: Recent goings-on in the #osr and points to a thing I strongly suspected:
Yochai is, as many have noted, a community-builder. Bluesky is not a community-oriented site; it's a network, at most able to host a scene.
newschoolrevolution.com/blue-skies-a...
Yochai is, as many have noted, a community-builder. Bluesky is not a community-oriented site; it's a network, at most able to host a scene.
newschoolrevolution.com/blue-skies-a...
Blue Skies Ahead
Hello friends.
I don't usually write posts like this. Generally, I don't even write posts about myself, and I am not trying to create more drama with this...
newschoolrevolution.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is a helpful read, re: Recent goings-on in the #osr and points to a thing I strongly suspected:
Yochai is, as many have noted, a community-builder. Bluesky is not a community-oriented site; it's a network, at most able to host a scene.
newschoolrevolution.com/blue-skies-a...
Yochai is, as many have noted, a community-builder. Bluesky is not a community-oriented site; it's a network, at most able to host a scene.
newschoolrevolution.com/blue-skies-a...
Amid all the controversy, I keep coming back to this take. Seems to me that YG's biggest sin in all of this is being bad at internet (which, for a community organiser/champion, is not nothing).
Yochai leaving here and crashing the OSR feed for a minute is a loss, but also I'm... in that state of "I know intellectually you might not have realized that was going to cause that reaction, and are hurt by it, but, also, it was so obviously going to cause that reaction".
January 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Amid all the controversy, I keep coming back to this take. Seems to me that YG's biggest sin in all of this is being bad at internet (which, for a community organiser/champion, is not nothing).
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.
January 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.
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Jimmy Carter has died at 100. With the battle for democracy in South Korea in the news, it's worth pointing out that Carter backed Chun Doo-hwan in crushing the 1980 Gwangju Uprising — a 10 day student revolt against Chun's military coup. Hundreds killed w/ hundreds more tortured in military prison.
December 29, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Jimmy Carter has died at 100. With the battle for democracy in South Korea in the news, it's worth pointing out that Carter backed Chun Doo-hwan in crushing the 1980 Gwangju Uprising — a 10 day student revolt against Chun's military coup. Hundreds killed w/ hundreds more tortured in military prison.
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A new version of DURF Expanded is up on the Patreon!
It includes a bunch of new art and reworks the structure of the book to make it a lot easier for new players to jump in ✨
www.patreon.com/c/emielboven
It includes a bunch of new art and reworks the structure of the book to make it a lot easier for new players to jump in ✨
www.patreon.com/c/emielboven
October 31, 2024 at 11:04 AM
A new version of DURF Expanded is up on the Patreon!
It includes a bunch of new art and reworks the structure of the book to make it a lot easier for new players to jump in ✨
www.patreon.com/c/emielboven
It includes a bunch of new art and reworks the structure of the book to make it a lot easier for new players to jump in ✨
www.patreon.com/c/emielboven
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Having a moment of hobby euphoria. Feeling grateful to be living through a golden age for ttrpgs. This year alone: Mothership 1e, Pendragon 6e, Lancer reprint, Moria supplement for The One Ring, Wildendrem: Valley of Flowers. All such brilliant works of creativity!
July 26, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Having a moment of hobby euphoria. Feeling grateful to be living through a golden age for ttrpgs. This year alone: Mothership 1e, Pendragon 6e, Lancer reprint, Moria supplement for The One Ring, Wildendrem: Valley of Flowers. All such brilliant works of creativity!